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The reality…..
The BBC is in hypocrisy hyperdrive as it peddles the idea of the ‘perfect female image’ on its Newsbeat programme aimed at youngsters.
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Clearly Melania Trump’s official White House portrait is so fake….no? Not like her at all.
Remember when the BBC attacked the Mail for daring to have a humorous look at the legs of our leading ladies telling us it was sexist and would never happen to men….the BBC has just launched a bizarre take-down of Melania Trump’s official portrait…it just doesn’t compare to Michelle Obama’s and is so so fake…
What Melania Trump’s official portrait says about the new First Lady
What does the picture say about the latest First Lady?
Photographs like these matter, says Prof Cara A Finnegan from the communications department at the University of Illinois, because they can tell you how a person in power views themselves.
While she thinks this is a better produced image than the first official portrait of President Donald Trump, comparisons to images from the Obama era are less favourable.
“In some ways they [the White House] are doing what they can do with what they have, which is someone who is a model, who built a business on her fame and the way that she looks,” says Prof Finnegan.
Commentators have pointed out the stance Mrs Trump has adopted, where the First Lady has her arms folded.“On the one hand it can communicate defensiveness,” says Prof Finnegan.
“But women in power generally don’t have a lot of body stances they can hold for themselves and communicate power.
So image is very important and tells you a lot about the person? Then surely the same goes for Sturgeon and May?
Then it gets really catty…Oh and there’s always some sort of link to fake news in BBC Trump stories….
“Melania Trump’s first official portrait embodies the excessive wealth and reality star celebrity of the Trump White House”.
She believes this photograph moves the administration “even further from the truth and substance of middle America”.
Many people have discussed the kinds of digital manipulation the image may have undergone.
“The obvious airbrushing in the photo can also be seen as a parallel to the Trump administration’s use of lies and ‘alternative facts’,” says Prof Dahmen.
“The portrait is a construction of reality – not actual reality.”
The use of photo software also raises some issues for Prof Finnegan.
“As a woman and as a feminist, I’m not excited about the norms of beauty that any of these sorts of images communicate, especially to young women and girls,” she says.
“Anxiety about airbrushing and the inevitable link to fake news, I get less worked up about because photography historically has always been involved in debates about what’s real and what’s fake.
“If the argument is, ‘Look how fake the Trumps are compared to the Obamas, because the Obamas photographs were so authentic,’ that’s where I get uncomfortable because there are ways to select and frame images, regardless of whether you airbrush them, that can be very inauthentic.”
Hmmm…..Trump is so fake…..no-one’s ever glammed up for their photo before have they?
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I realise that trans is on trend at the moment. Nonetheless, I am old fashioned enough to prefer the more feminine lady to one who looks like a linebacker. Sorry Michelle.
Rob
Rumour has it that Michelle may actually be a Michael!
Don’t want to seem sexist, and I am biased as my wife is black Gambian and Gambia has some of the most beautiful ladies I have ever seen. In that country Michelle would be considered ugly.
That is how Melania always looks from what I have seen .She is well groomed and I don’t think she does dress down days.
Anyone who has a go at Trumps family are showing how nasty they are,if they want to criticise him, do so, but leave his family alone.
Wild Bill,
But the Left are the “nasty party” , the haters. Imagine if people had slagged off Obama’s kids or Chelsea Clinton.
I believe Barack and Michelle Obama have what used to be called a lavender marriage, arranged by Reverend Wright to conceal Barack’s homosexuality.
The rumours of Barack Obama’s homosexuality and use of bath houses are too strong to ignore. It is an open secret in Chicago. Michelle is a butch looking woman who would not appeal to most men, certainly not the lithe, rather feminine Obama. However, the marriage worked, and they both got what they wanted.
One day, perhaps, someone will be able to document the rise and rise of an unremarkable mixed race man, raised by Marxists, to the Presidency of the United States. His one term career as an Illinois senator was undistinguished to say the least. All along his life, he seemed to have a mysterious helping hand. Despite being a lazy pothead, he ended up at Columbia and Harvard, got a “job” as a “community organiser” in Chicago, then got into the Illinois Senate, then the US Senate, then the Presidency, all without doing anything of any note.
It’s a fascinating story, but I doubt anyone will have the guts to tell it until the Obamas are long gone.
Rob,
Yes, how and empty vessel like Obama got there is a mystery.
Shock horror, an attractive (model) happens to have glammed up and looks attractive on a publicity photograph.
Would the BBC be happy if the picture showed her hoofing up her ring after a night on the lager?
Muppets.
Sexist piffle from the BBC. I think both the last First Lady and current First Lady dress and groom well, but I’d be quite happy never to be troubled by irrelevant reports about politician’s wives/husbands ever again.